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The following events took place on May 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 59 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1527

  Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
• 1536

  The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
• 1536

  King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church.
• 1542

  Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
• 1659

  English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
• 1682

  Louis XIV moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
• 1757

  Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years’ War.
• 1757

  The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
• 1757

  English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
• 1782

  Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
• 1801

  Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
• 1835

  James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• 1840

  The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• 1844

  The Glaciarium, the world’s first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
• 1857

  The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
• 1863

  American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
• 1877

  Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• 1882

  Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
• 1882

  The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
• 1889

  The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
• 1902

  Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President.
• 1910

  George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
• 1915

  Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run while pitching for the Boston Red Sox.
• 1916

  Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists executed in the Martyrs’ Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman wāli.
• 1933

  The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
• 1935

  New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
• 1935

  The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
• 1937

  Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.

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